Im running redhat 9 with 2.4.20-18.9, have nforce motherboard. Running alsa drivers (.94) I compiled my self. The sound works sweet as, but I can only play one sound at a time.
e.g. If im playing a music through xmms with the alsa .9 plugin and I start a movie the movie will not start playing until I press stop on xmms, then it runs. Basically it locks the program till the sound card is free. It cannot play sound from two programs at once.
Can anyone help me with this? This happens with any program e.g. videolan, mplayer, xine, so I assume the driver is not set correctly.

ALSA don't support hardware mixing in nforce audio. But I think the hardware supports it, so we maybe see it in the future. Until then, try software mixing. I use aRts and redirect /dev/dsp output with artsdsp.

well , i doubt if we ever will see multiple stream at once.
cause Nvidia itself didn't even think make driver to support multiple stream. i'm so dissappointed w/ them!
Nforce 1 & 2 support in linux are really bad!
as for nvaudio it's just a tweaked version of i810_audio module.